Book Launch — November 2, 2012

Book Launch

For those of you who live in New York, I would like to invite you all to come out to the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan on Monday, November 12 for the book launch of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda and America’s War in Arabia.

It should be a fun, laid-back evening and I hope to see many of you there.

Photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion

Starts With A Bang

Remembering the fallen heroes of spaceflight

Memorial day is a time to remember veterans killed in the line of service. These spaceflight heroes deserve to be remembered, too.

a group of people standing in the shape of a world map.

The Present

The case for “coöperism”: How we can solve global problems together

If we took the values and principles of cooperation to the next level, we could effectively tackle many crises.

a close up of a robot head on a white background.

High Culture

The 4 most terrifying AI systems in science fiction

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

Hard Science

Plants perform quantum mechanics feats that scientists can only do at ultra-cold temperatures

Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

The Past

The 1920s plan to make criminals confess to a terrifying skeleton

Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with “an unnatural ghastly glow”? One inventor thought you would.

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